Category: Fer6

  • Give me oil in my lamp keep me burnin…

    Today’s Readings: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 Matthew 25:1-13 Et quæ paratæ erant, intraverunt cum eo ad nuptias, et clausa est janua. Those who were ready went into the wedding feast with him. Then the door was locked. Matthew 25:10 There’s a reason this is a wedding feast, above and beyond any of the other possible events:…

  • Populus tuus populus meus

    Today’s Readings: Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14B-16, 22 Matthew 22:34-40 Quocumque enim perrexeris, pergam, et ubi morata fueris, et ego pariter morabor.  Populus tuus populus meus, et Deus tuus Deus meus. For wherever you go, I will go, wherever you lodge I will lodge.  Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Ruth…

  • You gotta dance.

    Today’s readings: Exodus 20:1-17 Matthew 13:18-23 The seed sown on the path is the one who hears the word… Matthew 13:19 In Matthew (as we heard on Sunday) seeds are not the abstract “Word of God” that they are in Luke and Mark. Seeds are symbols of us who have received the Word. Often you hear sermons…

  • A Blessed Feast!

    The Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

  • Why Not Fast?

    A Patristic Homily for the Friday after Ash Wednesday.From the Catena Aurea of St Thomas Aquinas, and the words of Sts John Chrysostom, Jerome, Rabanus, Augustine, Hillary. Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but thy disciples fast not?” This is arrogance – to take…